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  • Amsterdam's Hire-a-Refugee Program Takes On Tight Labor Market

    June 26, 2019 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    In what is being called the "Amsterdam Approach," the Dutch capital has been providing comprehensive job services to new refugees to help them find employment - and help the city deal with its current labor shortage. While the program has been promising, not every new immigrant is equally prepared for the jobs available to them, meaning there is more work to be done to ensure that everyone who wants a job can find and keep one successfully.

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  • Guiding Mothers and Babies Through the Opioid Crisis

    June 26, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Lake First Nation, Ontario

    When the opioid crisis hit indigenous communities throughout North America, solutions that were working in urban areas, weren't available to these isolated, rural regions. To combat the crisis specifically as it relates to pregnancy, health care workers and community members from the tribes are working together to implement programs that connect newborns and their families with the medical assistance they need.

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  • Is it time for a radical new approach to fighting global warming?

    June 25, 2019 |

    Global Ground Media |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    Geoengineering, a term used to cover a broad range of large-scale, drastic measures to combat climate change, has the science and policy communities divided. These measures are currently being explored across the world, and while they could work as a response to climate change, many cite them as temporary band-aids that will only delay the effects of global warming. Many cite the need to understand the complexity of the issue and, rather than bandaging the issue, take a comprehensive, structural approach.

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  • Creating a haven for quality primary care in Niger: The Fuka example

    June 24, 2019 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Fuka, Niger

    Access to medical resources improves the effectiveness of health centers. In the village of Fuka, in Nigeria’s Niger State, NGOs such as the RAiSE Foundation and TY Danjuma Foundation have stepped in to support the local Primary Health Centre (PHC). Multiple initiatives, including home visits and the distribution of mosquito nets, have built relationships with the community; the most successful aspects have been the Mama Kit, given free of charge to pregnant women at the PHC, and the donation of an emergency ambulatory tricycle.

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  • What if Fort Worth hired ex-convicts to fight violent crime? It's working elsewhere

    June 24, 2019 |

    Fort Worth Star-Telegram |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    Within a year of founding its Office of Neighborhood Safety to prevent gun violence, Richmond saw its most violent neighborhood drop from 27 murders to three. The program pairs former gang members and formerly incarcerated men with people deemed at risk of shooting others or getting shot. The mentors are paid a salary by the city, and the program "fellows" get paid a stipend if they stay out of trouble and respond well to the program's life-skills counseling. The program expanded citywide and to other cities, based on its record of keeping fellows alive and shootings in decline.

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  • Au-delà des mots, elle décode la langue du cœur

    June 24, 2019 |

    Le Temps |

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    Response Location: Switzerland

    En Suisse, l’association Appartenances fait appel à 140 interprètes communautaires pour favoriser l'autonomie des personnes migrantes. Leur mission : traduire, certes, mais surtout de dissiper les méprises potentielles dues aux différences culturelles entre une personne migrante et un professionnel de santé ou du social. Ces interprètes ont tous eux-mêmes un parcours migratoire derrière eux qui permet de saisir les nuances entre le pays d’origine de la personne migrante et le pays d’accueil.

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  • They were raped during Colombia's civil war. Now they want justice for their children.

    June 24, 2019 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Colombia

    Following the Colombian civil war, the country enacted The Victims’ Law, which centered on providing reparations to those affected by violence and war. But since its creation, the law has only provided reparations to less than 11% of those who have applied, and for women survivors, it’s even less. Women, who are disproportionately affected by war because of the use of sexual assault, are coming together under the National Tablle for Victim’s Participation, are demanding more.

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  • City Revival - Did We Learn From the Urban Renewal Era?

    June 24, 2019 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    In the middle of the 20th century, the Housing Act of 1949 launched cities across the city into a downtown reconstruction frenzy, the often to no avail; in the modern renewal movement, cities try to get it right. Cities like New Haven, Connecticut look at renewal projects that have failed - both in economic success and equity endeavors - to build structures with economic justice and long term social consequences in mind.

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  • For Vitiligo Patients, New Treatments Offer Hope

    June 24, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Vitiligo, an incurable autoimmune condition that impacts both children and adults, is often a cause of stress and stigma concerns for those affected. Recent efforts to reduce the skin discoloration that the condition is known for has lead to the discovery that medications and therapies already used in the health field can also be applied to this circumstance.

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  • The Mentor: One Year, Two Teachers and a Quest in the Bronx to Empower Educators and Students to Think for Themselves

    June 24, 2019 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Founded in the 1990s, the New Teacher Center offers a promising mentor model for new teachers. In an effort to measure the program's effectiveness and see if it impacts teacher retention, the 74 followed two participating teachers in a high-needs school in the South Bronx for one year.

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